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To inspire and empower people to build economical, sustainable, and community created structures through an international network of skilled and unskilled volunteers that exchange knowledge, labor, and experiences at sustainable self-build projects. Help one another, house one another, sustain life on our planet!

We want to be one initiative of artists, scientists and the interested parties to build a global food network and make available to specify with the goal in mind every person on this planet a chance to eat free and healthy. We are one, divided by zero.

Asset­ map builds technology that gives serendipity a hand, help­ ing you discover more of the amazing people you happened to have not met, yet.

Akarru is a social bookmarking engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites, like www.blogmemes.com. Users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system.

COHAB is a community of individuals and organisations working together to address the gaps in awareness, policy and action on the links between biodiversity and human health and well-being. The Initiative supports efforts to enhance human security through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the goods and services it provides. COHAB provides a platform for dialogue, promoting understanding and experience sharing, and working to build partnerships across sectors and cultural divides.

"We'd like to build Your Community a Home Sweet Home. A Place where members come to interact, and exchange, in order to build cohesion, solidarity and volunteerism. Our tools make your life easier:"

BrightFarms designs, finances, builds and operates hydroponic greenhouse farms at supermarkets, eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain.

The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses. Without that, it's just a fad. there is the inextricable link between energy and agriculture. The food industry in the U.S is one of the largest and most wasteful consumers of energy. Various studies estimate that the food industry consumes around 10% of the nation's energy with only about 20% of it used in the actual production of food. The rest goes to processing, home refrigeration and preparation, and of course, transportation. Transportation costs also are a major factor in food prices, especially for water-heavy vegetables such as romaine lettuce.For all of these reasons and others, the local food movement in America is gaining steam. 

Drawing from seven decades of movement-building experience, Grace Lee Boggs shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities.

DYNDY is an effort at building a Pattern Language for Alternative and Complementary Money Systems to inform and empower grassroots communities with concepts and tools to overcome scarcity, instruments and reflections for the Exodus from proprietary money.